Mobile Crowdsourcing Task Assignment Algorithm Based on ConvNeXt and GRU
摘要
Task assignment is a crucial aspect of mobile crowdsourcing research. The focus is on allocating appropriate perceptual tasks based on task and worker characteristics to optimize perceptual quality. Tasks arrive dynamically in a crowdsourcing system, and the platform cannot assign all tasks at the beginning. This can lead to the task allocation process falling into a local optimal solution. To address the problem, this paper proposes a two-stage prediction algorithm that utilises historical spatio-temporal data of crowdsourcing services. Firstly, the temporal data is converted into image data through Markov Transition Field. Then, the task availability is transformed into a categorisation problem. In the first stage, a ConvNeXt-based network is used to predict the task availability. In the second stage, a GRU-based network is used to predict the task duration. This paper presents the results of several experiments that confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.